How do you get attention in the art and culture section of NRC? I really wouldn't know. One surely has to be talented..... (Does this sound jealous? I guess it does.....). On 3 January 2012 NRC Handelsblad published an article about the painter Ani Eloyan under the heading "Rising star". Now she is quite young (23) and I am rather old (...). And she is still studying or just finished her study (at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam) and I finished my study in a grey past (Art Academy in Rotterdam, the predecessor of the Willem de Kooning Academy). I probably did not step into the limelight often enough and because of circumstances I chose for a business career. Only since about 12 years I became more active in art again. Anyhow, it is nice to note what is now flourishing in art. And I can certainly appreciate her work. See more of her work here.